U+3145 "ㅅ" Hangul Letter Sios Unicode Character

Unicode Version 17.0

U+3145 "ㅅ" Hangul Letter Sios is a component of the Korean writing system, known as Hangul, where it represents the consonant sound /s/ (or a lenis /s̻/ in modern standard Korean). As a distinct Jamo character in Unicode's Hangul Compatibility Jamo block, it is primarily used for historic or educational purposes, such as displaying the individual letters of the Hangul alphabet outside of full syllable blocks. In its typical function within modern Korean orthography, this character appears as the initial or final consonant in syllabic clusters, such as in the word "사" (sa) or "곳" (got), where it maintains a consistent sound value. Its rectangular shape and simple form make it one of the fundamental building blocks for creating thousands of composite Hangul syllables.

General Properties

Code Point U+3145
Version Added 1.1
Name Hangul Letter Sios
Block Hangul Compatibility Jamo
General Category Other Letter
Canonical Combining Class Not Reordered
Bidirectional Class Left To Right
Decomposition Type Compat
Decomposition Mapping "ᄉ" U+1109 Hangul Choseong Sios

Encodings

HTML Decimal Encoding ㅅ
HTML Hex Encoding ㅅ
UTF-8 Encoding 0xE3 0x85 0x85
UTF-16 Encoding 0x3145
UTF-32 Encoding 0x00003145
C/C++/Java Escape \u3145

Unicode Properties

NFC Quick Check Yes
NFD Quick Check Yes
Numeric Type None
Numeric Value NaN
Line Break Ideographic
East Asian Width Wide
Changes When NFKC Casefolded Yes
NFKC Casefold "ᄉ" U+1109 Hangul Choseong Sios
NFKC Simple Casefold "ᄉ" U+1109 Hangul Choseong Sios
Script Hangul
Script Extensions Hangul
Indic Syllabic Category Other
ID Start Yes
XID Start Yes
ID Continue Yes
XID Continue Yes
Alphabetic Yes
Vertical Orientation Upright
Grapheme Base Yes
Grapheme Cluster Break Other
Word Break Alphabetic letter
Sentence Break OLetter